Mon:
Work on group projects
Tue:
Political Machine
- political organization usually controlled by a single boss that controlled votes and had administrative control of a city, country or state
- these organizations provided social services and jobs to people in exchange for votes
- very corrupt
- came about due to the rapid increase of population in cities and poor government in the 1800s
- died out in the early 1900s
kickback system
granting favors to big businesses
- spoils systems/patronage
- political boss hired/fired police
- corruption in government
boss william marcy tweed
democratic party political machine
reforming government
- the spoils system/patronage caused a lot of the problems
- pendleton civil service act-1883
- required most government jobs to be given through a merit system based on test scores
Wed:
- skyscrapers
- electric streetcars
- automatic dishwasher/vacuum cleaner
- cash register
- subways
- Airplane
- kodak camera
- light bulb
- typewriter
- radio
- toilet paper
Education
- before mid 1800 only rich people had an education
- public school by 1865
- school-aged children more at work than school
- between 1865-1895, states passed laws requiring 12-16 weeks annually of school
- classes focused on the 4 R's - reading, riting, rithmetic
- memorization and recitation was very common
Thu:
- the bells
- assembly line
- students are tested and if they pass, move to the next part if the assembly line
- schools were/are "one size fits all" and preparing students to work in factories upon finishing school
reason for the population to grow in 1800s was immigration
- African Americans were mostly excluded from public schools or had to attend segregated schools
- In 1910, 3% of African Americans between the ages 15-19 attended HS
- Immigrants were encouraged to go to school
- Most european immigrant families had to learn english
- religion in school
- public schools had mandatory readings from the protestant bible
- many catholic families were concerned
- catholic communities set up parochial schools to give their children a catholic school
- from 1880-1920, college enrollments quadrupled
- high school diploma and entrance exams were used in admittance purposes
- morill act 1862
- Iowa State- 1858
- Drake 1881
- Iowa 1847
- UNI 1876
Segregation
- literacy test
- poll tax
- grandfather clause (1-1-1867), If grandfather could vote prior this day you could vote-> poor whites could vote, blacks couldn't
- Jim Crow laws -> specific laws,
- Plessy v Ferguson- 1896-> legal law i the US
- "Separate but Equal"
- Separate and unequal in reality
- lynching and violence
Entertainment in the late 1800s and early 1900s
- amusement parks
- circuses
- vaudeville shows
- minstrel shows
Fri:
- parks
- basketball
- baseball
- football
baseball biggest sport
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